OKLAHOMA
U.S. TERRITORY OF OKLAHOMA
In 1889 the "Unassigned Lands" - a part of Indian Territory - were opened to white settlement. The following year it was extended with others parts of Indian Territory and with No Man's Land to form the new U.S. Territory of Oklahoma. (1) (1) See here for the Unassigned Lands before 1890 See here for the formation of Oklahoma since 1887 __________________________________________________________________________________TERRITORIAL OFFICERS
Territorial Governors (Subordinated to the Department of the Interior) 1890 - 1891 George Washinton Steele 1839 - 1922 1891 - 1892 Robert Martin 1833 - 1897 1892 - 1893 Abraham Jefferson Seay 1832 - 1915 1893 - 1897 William Cary Renfrow 1845 - 1922 1897 - 1901 Cassius McDonald Barnes 1845 - 1925 1901 William Miller Jenkins 1856 - 1941 1901 William C. Grimes 1857 - 1931 1901 - 1906 Thompson Benton Ferguson 1857 - 1921 1906 - 1907 Frank Frantz 1872 - 1941 __________________________________________________________________________________REPRESENTATIVES TO THE U.S. CONGRESS
Territorial Delegates 1890 - 1893 David Archibald Harvey 1845 - 1916 1893 - 1897 Dennis Thomas Flynn 1861 - 1939 1897 - 1899 James Yancy Callahan 1852 - 1935 1899 - 1903 Dennis Thomas Flynn (2x) 1903 - 1907 Bird Segle McGuirre 1865 - 1930
U.S. STATE OF OKLAHOMA
In 1907 the Territory of Oklahoma (including the Osage Reservation) and the last remnants of Indian Territory - the Muskogee Union Agency and the Quapaw Agency - were merged into the new U.S. State of Oklahoma. __________________________________________________________________________________STATE OFFICERS
Governors 1907 - 1911 Charles Nathaniel Haskell 1861 - 1933 1911 - 1915 Lee Cruce 1863 - 1933 1915 - 1919 Robert Lee Williams 1868 - 1948 1919 - 1923 James Brooks Ayers Robertson 1871 - 1938 1923 John Calloway Walton 1881 - 1949 1923 - 1927 Martin Edwin Trapp 1877 - 1951 1927 - 1929 Henry Simpson Johnston 1870 - 1965 1929 - 1931 William Judson Holloway 1888 - 1970 1931 - 1935 William Henry David Murray "Alfalfa Bill" 1869 - 1956 1935 - 1939 Ernest Whitworth Marland 1874 - 1941 1939 - 1943 Leon Chase Phillips 1890 - 1958 1943 - 1947 Robert Samuel Kerr 1896 - 1963
NO MAN'S LAND AND THE TERRITORY OF CIMARRON
No man's Land was the informal name given since ca 1885 to the unorganized tract of land which had been ceded to the U.S. central government by the State of Texas in 1850. (Formal name : Public Land Strip) The area was relatively unused until ca 1871 when cattle holders started using it as grazing land. Ca 1880 they were joined by Kansas settlers and soon small villages and towns were established. At first some kind of government was exercised by local Vigilance Committees. In 1886 they united to form the Respective Claim Board and the following year a convention proclaimed the Territory of Cimarron. The proclamation was however not recognized by the U.S. government and the position of the area remained unclarified until 1890, when it became part of the Territory of Oklahoma. __________________________________________________________________________________CHIEF ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TERRITORY OF CIMARRON
President of the Convention 1887 O. G. Chase, afterwards elected Delegate to the U.S. Congress, but not recognized by the U.S. authorities Governor 1887 - 18.. J. R. Linley
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